self-confident - Story 125243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the art gallery. Stella, however, felt impervious to the weather. Her new collection was about to debut, and the buzz was electric. Her shoulders were back, her chin lifted high as she chatted with a curator, her words flowing with practiced ease. Success was her element.

The doctor cleared his throat, holding a file. "There seems to be an error," he mumbled. "These records indicate…" He hesitated.

Stella raised a perfectly sculpted eyebrow. "Yes?" Her voice was steady, a clear command.

"That you… have a serious heart condition." The doctor’s voice was lost in the vast gallery space. Stella merely laughed, a crystalline sound that echoed off the high ceilings.

Emotion: self-confident

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.45 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-confident. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 self-confident stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-confident emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-confident vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.778
`la`	0.550
`l`	0.467
`😎`	0.458
`😉`	0.411

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.961
`L`	-0.538
`😞`	-0.464
`마다`	-0.459
`😣`	-0.458